Ossian Collection > Morison's edition of the Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal

TEMOR A:
AN EPIC POEM.
THE AR-GUMENT.
The fecond night continues. Fingal relates, at the feaft,
his own firft expedition into Ireland, and his marriage
with Ros-crana, the daughter of Cormac, king of that
ifland. The Irifh chiefs convene in the prefence of Cath-
mor. The fituation of the king defcribed. The ftory of
Sul-malla, the daughter of Conmor, king of Inis-huna,
who, in the difguife of a young warrior, had followed
Cathmor to the war. The fuUen behaviour of Foldatb,
who had commanded ini:he battle of the preceding day,
renews the difference between him and MaJthos ; but
Cathmor, interpofing, ends it. The chiefs feaft, and
hear the fong of Fonar the bard. Cathmor returns to
reft, at a diftance from the army. The ghoft of his bro-
ther ^airbar appears to him in a dceam ; and obfcurely
foretels the iffue of the war. The foliloquy of the king.
He difcovers Sul-malla. Morning comes. Her foliloquy
■clofes the book.
BOOK IV,
" T>'ENEATH^ an oak," faid the king, «I
JL# fat on Selma's ftreamy rock, when Con-
nal rofe, from the fea, with the broken fpear of
G 3 Duth,